WEIRD SCIENCE
Weird Science explores amazing ideas of the Victorian Era. It delves into inventions, sciences, engineering, architecture and countless discoveries. It was a turning point in the history of human creativity. It was a time of outrageous developments. Weird science led to daily inventions and discoveries. Some were major successes and some were disastrous flops!
Female Aeronaut Mary Myers Mastered East Coast Wind Currents In Hot Air Balloons
Female Aeronaut Mary Myers Mastered East Coast Wind Currents In Hot Air Balloons
Once Aeronaut Mary Myers took flight in a lighter-than-air passenger balloon, her eyes remained forever skyward. She was born August Read More>...
Two Petrol Powered French Vehicles Won The First Car Race For Comfort Plus Speed
Two Petrol Powered French Vehicles Won The First Car Race For Comfort Plus Speed
It was a time when horsepower was still provided primarily by our four-legged friends. But that was about to change Read More>...
Giant Victoria Water Lily Sparked Fierce Competition To Give Queen Victoria First Blossoms
Giant Victoria Water Lily Sparked Fierce Competition To Give Queen Victoria First Blossoms
It was a time when the sun never set on the vast British Empire. Eighteen-year-old Victoria became Queen in June Read More>...
First Female Field Engineer Emily Warren Roebling Completed Construction Of The Brooklyn Bridge
First Female Field Engineer Emily Warren Roebling Completed Construction Of The Brooklyn Bridge
Emily Warren Roebling was a newlywed taking an extended European trip to study suspension bridges and caisson technology. Little did Read More>...
Hot Air Balloonist Eduard Spelterini Paved The Way For Google Maps With Dramatic Aerial Photography
Hot Air Balloonist Eduard Spelterini Paved The Way For Google Maps With Dramatic Aerial Photography
From an early age, Eduard Spelterini dreamed of fame. When his first plan lost air, he became a balloon pilot. Read More>...
Victorian Era Photochrom Postcards Became Instagram For Nineteenth Century Collectors
Victorian Era Photochrom Postcards Became Instagram For Nineteenth Century Collectors
People share nearly nine billion images daily on Instagram. In the entire year of 1905 the Detroit Publishing Company sold Read More>...
Chipped China Inspired Josephine Cochrane To Invent Effective Victorian Era Dishwashers
Chipped China Inspired Josephine Cochrane To Invent Effective Victorian Era Dishwashers
Josephine Cochrane was a well-heeled socialite who enjoyed lavish entertaining and had little tolerance for chipped china. She had even Read More>...
French Flower Market By Ethel Carrick Fox Was Once Highest-Priced Among Australian Women Painters
French Flower Market By Ethel Carrick Fox Was Once Highest-Priced Among Australian Women Painters
English born Ethel Carrick (1872 –1952) and Australian Emmanuel Phillips Fox (1865–1915) had only been married ten years when he Read More>...
Corrupt Politicians Killed Victorian Era Central Park Dinosaurs And Buried The Bodies
Corrupt Politicians Killed Victorian Era Central Park Dinosaurs And Buried The Bodies
Even without Social Media, Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins was a trendsetter for the emerging field of paleontology. A firm believer in Read More>...
Steam Powered Victorian Era Robots Failed Miserably But Inspired Science Fiction Stories
Steam Powered Victorian Era Robots Failed Miserably But Inspired Science Fiction Stories
As it turns out, robophobia (fear of robots) has been around since we were mere glimmers in the eyes of Read More>...
Victorian Era Virtual Reality Megalethoscope Brought The World To Armchair Travelers
Victorian Era Virtual Reality Megalethoscope Brought The World To Armchair Travelers
For less than $100, we can enjoy 3D life wherever and whenever. With a gizmo 7.7 x 6.6 x 5 Read More>...
The Great Moon Hoax Captivated Victorian Era Readers With Alternative Facts And Magical Thinking
The Great Moon Hoax Captivated Victorian Era Readers With Alternative Facts And Magical Thinking
Life was discovered on the moon in 1835, according to The Sun (1833–1950). On August 21, they advertised a six-part series Read More>...
Victorian Era Solar Eclipses Inspired Mabel Loomis Todd To Write Poetic Science For Non-scientists
Victorian Era Solar Eclipses Inspired Mabel Loomis Todd To Write Poetic Science For Non-scientists
Victorian Era Solar Eclipses caused flurries of excitement just as they do today. Even without Social Media, people throughout the Read More>...
Victorian Era Painter Peder Severin Kroyer Captured Magical Blue Light of Skagen
Victorian Era Painter Peder Severin Kroyer Captured Magical Blue Light of Skagen
Skagen (pronounced Skay-en) is poised on the northernmost tip of Denmark. The headland is one of the largest spits of Read More>...
Human Cannonball Zazel Thrilled Victorian Era Audiences With Her Bravery
Human Cannonball Zazel Thrilled Victorian Era Audiences With Her Bravery
Fearless gymnast and trapeze artist Rossa Matilda Richter was born in 1863. By fourteen she took the stage name Zazel. Read More>...
Recent Articles
- Horatio Jackson Drove Across America
- Ice Cream Cones Ignore History
- Tulip Mania Spawned Greater Fools
- Trailblazing Women Wore Victorian Tennis Shoes
- First Electric Christmas Lights Sparked Holiday Cheer
- Fannie Merritt Farmer Pioneered Scientific Cooking
- Annie Edson Taylor Rode Niagara Falls
- Victorian Cardomania Foreshadowed Social Media Photo Sharing
- Carl Størmer Captured Candid Expressions With His Victorian Era Spy Camera
- Supernatural Strength Of Victorian Georgia Wonders Confounded Audiences
- Futuristic Victorian Postcards Predicted Millennial Technology
- Christmas Bird Count Transformed Holiday Side Hunts
- Duryea Brothers Won First American Car Race On Thanksgiving Day
- Columbian Exposition Electricity Transformed America
- Dramatic Skies From Victorian Era Krakatoa Eruption Touched People Worldwide
- Female Aeronaut Mary Myers Mastered East Coast Wind Currents In Hot Air Balloons
- Two Petrol Powered French Vehicles Won The First Car Race For Comfort Plus Speed
- Giant Victoria Water Lily Sparked Fierce Competition To Give Queen Victoria First Blossoms
- First Female Field Engineer Emily Warren Roebling Completed Construction Of The Brooklyn Bridge
- Hot Air Balloonist Eduard Spelterini Paved The Way For Google Maps With Dramatic Aerial Photography
- Victorian Era Photochrom Postcards Became Instagram For Nineteenth Century Collectors
- Chipped China Inspired Josephine Cochrane To Invent Effective Victorian Era Dishwashers
- French Flower Market By Ethel Carrick Fox Was Once Highest-Priced Among Australian Women Painters
- Corrupt Politicians Killed Victorian Era Central Park Dinosaurs And Buried The Bodies
- Steam Powered Victorian Era Robots Failed Miserably But Inspired Science Fiction Stories
- Victorian Era Virtual Reality Megalethoscope Brought The World To Armchair Travelers
- The Great Moon Hoax Captivated Victorian Era Readers With Alternative Facts And Magical Thinking
- Victorian Era Solar Eclipses Inspired Mabel Loomis Todd To Write Poetic Science For Non-scientists
- Victorian Era Painter Peder Severin Kroyer Captured Magical Blue Light of Skagen
- Human Cannonball Zazel Thrilled Victorian Era Audiences With Her Bravery
- Victorian Era Mermaids Flourished With Barnum’s Fake News And Alternative Facts
- Victorian Era Theatrophone Live Streamed Opera Performances And News
- Philadelphia Centennial Exposition 1876 Introduced Everything From Bananas To Telephones
- Victorian Era Electric Cars And The Ladies Who Loved Them
- Frederick Richard Simms Designed First Armored Cars
- Henry Ford Quadricycle Reached Ten mph June 1896
- Winifred Edgerton Merrill Cheered As First American Woman Awarded Mathematics Ph.D.
- Harriet Quimby Set Multiple Records Including First Licensed Female Pilot In America
- Lemoine Family’s Victorian Flowers Bloom In Our Gardens Today
- Astonishing Victorian Selfies Promoted Nikola Tesla Inventions And Experiments
- Nikola Tesla Papers Envisioned Renewable Energy For A Better World
- Jules Verne North Pole Novel Predicted Today’s Arctic Land Grab
- Mary Anning Discoveries Including Ichthyosaur Rocked Paleontology
- Wild Victorian New Year’s Eve Party Hosted In Dinosaur’s Belly
- Victorian Era Crystal Palace Dinosaurs Roam Earth To This Day
- Profits From The Great Exhibition 1851 Fund Research Today
- The First Gigantic Ferris Wheel Had Steep Highs And Lows
- Top 4 Victorian Era Eyewear Trends Rocked Fashionistas
- Great Comets Sparked Skies Of Victorian Era
- Perseid Meteor Showers From Comet Swift-Tuttle
- MAREA Follows First Transatlantic Cable By 150 Years
- Four Weird Victorian Inventions That Made Shade
- Bartholdi’s Statue Of Liberty Slated For Suez Canal
- Behold The Ice Cream Cone: Invention Of Necessity
- Nancy Johnson Brought Ice Cream To The Masses
- Joseph Faber’s Marvelous Talking Machine, Euphonia
- Mutoscopes Become “What The Butler Saw” Machines
- Jan Zieba’s Panoramic Photography: Churches of Peace
- The Harem Effect On Female Scientists In The Victorian Era
- Williamina Fleming: Maid To Victorian Era Astronomer
- Please Don’t Lick The Wallpaper: Arsenic In Victorian Era Décor
- Victorian Era Fashion: Green Gowns To Die For!
- Nellie Bly Sent Victorian Era Tweets From Her Race
- Victorian Era Places: Then And Now
- Aida de Acosta: First Woman To Fly A Powered Aircraft
- Santos-Dumont Creates First “Flying Car”: Victorian Era
- Victorian Era Trick Photography: Headless Portraits
- Eiffel Tower’s Top Ten Victorian Secrets Revealed
- Victorian Airships And Dirigibles Meet Amazon Prime Air
- First Steam-Powered Airship Goes In Circles, Giffard 1852
- Giffard’s Balloon Over Paris Takes 50 Passengers & Photos, 1878
- Stonehenge Auctioned: Chubb’s Wife Returned His Gift
- Message In A Bottle Travels More Than A Century
- 1858: Elon Musk Of The Transatlantic Cable
- Amelia Earhart: Our Favorite On National Aviation Day
- The Quagga’s Last Day On Earth: August 12, 1883
- Daredevil Driver Fred Marriott Sets Land Speed Record
- Fastest Auto Ride: “American Memory”
- First Hacker Talks Trash: Victorian Era, 1903
- Nikola Tesla And Mark Zuckerberg Read Your Mind
- Nikola Tesla Predicted Cell Phones, 1901
- Bad Victorian Era Hair Days Blown Away Forever
- Dodging Brooklyn’s Streetcars: 1895
- Were Doughnuts Really Invented in 1847?
- Sally Ride’s Space Adventure
- Chumash Artifacts Found Above Malibu
- The Saga Of Hurricane Bill
- Big Dreams, Small Tool Triggered Gold Rush
- Edison’s Talking Dolls: A Lesson In Damage Control
- The 1865 “Red Flag Act” Speed Limit: 4 mph!
- 1886: Bertha Benz Cures Her Need For Speed
- Jules Verne And The Effect of Awe On Your Brain
- Jules Verne: Visionary And Futurist
- How Did Nikola Tesla’s Cat Change Your Life?
- Nikola Tesla Cured Mark Twain’s Constipation
